Aqueduct Press
PO Box 95787
Seattle, WA 98145-2787

Kristi Carter

Kristi Carter

Kristi Carter’s poems have appeared in publications including
Alyss , Gertrude, So to Speak,
poemmemoirstory (now Nelle), CALYX,
Nimrod, Naugatuck River Review, North Carolina
Literary Review, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary
Anthology of Women and Place (Sundress Publications), and
Hawaii Review amongst others.

Her scholarly and poetic work examines of the intersection of gender
and intergenerational trauma in 20th Century poetics. Her fields of
interest include trauma narratives, trauma studies via gender studies
and intersectionality, and most subfields of study tangential to
these, with specific interest on agency and gender.

Scholarship projects of late include an essay on the exploration and
creation of feminist perspectives on motherhood alongside examples
from 20th and 21st century poetry that extend women’s agency through
complex portrayals of mother-daughter relationships, and by way of
this, cultivate independent but related constructions of subjectivity
for mothers and daughters. In addition, and closely related, she has
done research on depictions of motherhood in confessional poetry and
the critical scholarship as a mode of containment of those
depictions. As a trauma scholar, she has also recently explored the
cultural and individual traumas caused by war, with specific focus on
the issues within American culture during WWII. Specifically, her
analysis is funneled through the poetry of marginalized writers who
thusly offer a compounded interpretation of trauma based on their
experiences as both American citizens and as individuals who have been
oppressed.

Like many scholars and writers, Carter has been teaching for some time
now, with specific interest in aims to engage students in an
interdisciplinary approach to feminist literary theory and the works
of feminist poets through critical and creative discourses. Whether
composition, literature, theory, cultural analysis, or gender studies,
her teaching aims to motivate students to form tangible and relevant
applications to their lives with the skills they build while working
with her.